#good morning everyone i'm sad about lestat today

[hekateinhell]

Woke up today remembering Lestat's little nieces and nephews that were executed during the French Revolution; the ones he worried about and asked for portraits of and sent presents to.

How much do you think baby Claudia might have subconsciously reminded Lestat of his nieces and the family he tried to do right by? She did look like she could be his own daughter, after all.

Lestat even dreams about it when he gets the letter informing him that no one of his mortal family survived, except for his father:

I had gone back [to the family castle] and made them all into vampires, and there we were, the House de Lioncourt, whitefaced beauties even to the bloodsucking baby that lay in the cradle and the mother who bent to give it the wriggling longtailed gray rat upon which it was to feed. We laughed and we kissed one another as we walked through the ashes, my white brothers, their white wives, the ghostly children chattering together about victims [...].

Like, is that foreshadowing or what?

#good morning everyone i'm sad about lestat today #and all the many motifs of losing and remaking your family in vc #lestat de lioncourt #claudia #the vampire chronicles #vc